How many people here have work animals? I don't have a farm yet but I would like to get some work animals once I get a farm, possibly 1 tractor for tough stuff like plowing but get set up for cultivating, planting, hay making with work animals. At minimum get set up so I can do all my gardening without oil... which might mean a small donkey and a cultivator that fits, or just a push cultivator and seeder.
It's absolutely inconceivable to me that 90% of the farmland in America is farmed with oil... which has a supply chain that stretches 10,000 miles assuming that it originates in Saudi Arabia.
Don't people have any concept... any idea.... any realization... of what happens once a part of that supply chain is disrupted?!!!?!!!
My favorite story that I've heard is of the old man who lived in the upper midwest, who had farmed the same ground since the 1930's, died about 2-5 years ago, maybe a little more, with horses. He said he'd never lost money on a crop and every year through the Great Depression he'd made money.
Also, recently I heard of a farm in the same vicinity where they'd never hooked up to the electric grid- the guy is pretty old now or he died a few years ago... used wind chargers since the 1940's as well.
Meat on the hoof.... crops in the ground... a well that you can hand pump.... absolutely no connections to the outside world for utilities... a securable location at least a hour by pavement from the nearest large city in an area of like-minded people are the true keys/secrets to long-term survival.
It's absolutely inconceivable to me that 90% of the farmland in America is farmed with oil... which has a supply chain that stretches 10,000 miles assuming that it originates in Saudi Arabia.
Don't people have any concept... any idea.... any realization... of what happens once a part of that supply chain is disrupted?!!!?!!!
My favorite story that I've heard is of the old man who lived in the upper midwest, who had farmed the same ground since the 1930's, died about 2-5 years ago, maybe a little more, with horses. He said he'd never lost money on a crop and every year through the Great Depression he'd made money.
Also, recently I heard of a farm in the same vicinity where they'd never hooked up to the electric grid- the guy is pretty old now or he died a few years ago... used wind chargers since the 1940's as well.
Meat on the hoof.... crops in the ground... a well that you can hand pump.... absolutely no connections to the outside world for utilities... a securable location at least a hour by pavement from the nearest large city in an area of like-minded people are the true keys/secrets to long-term survival.
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